A woman who fiddled almost €50,000 of UK taxpayers’ cash while bragging about running a business in Spain on her Facebook account, has been sentenced to a suspended six month jail term. Louise Jones, 50, reportedly claimed British disability benefits and housing allowance for almost 10 years, despite living in […]
French bank Societe Generale (SOGN.PA) warned that volatile markets would hurt its fourth quarter profit, hitting its shares and other banks which have yet to report earnings. SocGen, whose traditional strength is in stocks and equity derivatives, said it expected a drop in revenue of around 20 percent compared to […]
The beachfront bar, Tiki Beach, located on Benidorm’s Levante coast, has reopened its judicial battle in order to escape closure. The Supreme Court previously ordered the closure of the ‘controversial’ bar, owned by the Tiki Group, last September. However, the business has filed an appeal before the Provincial Court of […]
REAL Madrid’s Karim Benzema has once more fallen foul of traffic authorities – just months after being caught filming himself at 120 kilometres per hour on a town road and three years after losing his licence for driving at over 200 kilometres per hour. This time, the French centre-forward could […]
Five Spanish police officers and one Tax Agency employee have been targeted in a sweeping court investigation into an alleged espionage network headed by a retired police chief. 67 year old José Manuel Villarejo is at the center of a case involving 20 years’ worth of phone taps, undercover recordings […]
Spain’s maritime rescue service has saved 472 people who were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe over the past two days. The service says that 17 people, including one woman, were rescued early this morning from two inflatable rafts, similar to those used at beaches and swimming pools. […]
Valencia’s main station and city centre will be linked by metro to the iconic City of Arts and Sciences within the next two years, as work is ready to start this April on the long-awaited Line 10. The plans had been gathering dust since 2011 due to lack of funding, […]
Despite scoring one goal and setting up another, Antoine Griezmann couldn’t prevent Atletico Madrid tumbling out of the Copa del Rey last night as Girona progressed on away goals after a thrilling 3-3 draw. Real Madrid and Sevilla each avoided upsets, their first-leg victories proving enough despite losses to Leganes […]
The prime minister said the vote shows it is important that countries are able to manage their “own economic affairs tightly” even though he did say Australia’s direct economic consequence to the Brexit fiasco is “limited”. Mr Morrison told Sky News Australia: “The direct economic impacts on Australia are limited. […]
Spanish government figures show the country received a national record of 82.6 million foreign tourists last year. Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said Wednesday the figures show Spain remains competitive as it battles to overtake France, the world’s top destination in 2017 with almost 87 million arrivals. France […]
Juan Manuel Moreno has been voted in as the new regional leader with the support of Ciudadanos and far-right party Vox, which has entered parliament for the first time Popular Party (PP) candidate Juan Manuel Moreno has been voted in as the next regional premier of Andalusia, bringing an end […]
A 13-year-old boy in Bargas, Toledo, it set to undergo several surgical operations after a rocket, that his parents had bought him, exploded. According to the Guardia Civil, currently investigating the case, the boy’s parents had bought over €300 worth of pyrotechnic merchandise. The young boy set-off the rocket, with […]
